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76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine
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76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nadeem Badshah at The Guardian reports that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to recognize a Palestinian state today, […]

Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission finds Israel Responsible for Genocide in Gaza

Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission finds Israel Responsible for Genocide in Gaza

09/21/2025 By Binoy Kampmark

Ghosts of E. Germany’s Stasi: How technology is used to supercharge Monitoring and Control

Ghosts of E. Germany’s Stasi: How technology is used to supercharge Monitoring and Control

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al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula
Is a Showdown between Radical Shiites and al-Qaeda Brewing in Yemen?

Is a Showdown between Radical Shiites and al-Qaeda Brewing in Yemen?

SANAA (IRIN) – Yahia Abu Talib, serious and stoic, is in no doubt about the importance of his role. “We protect homes and mosques,” he […]

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Human Rights
Iran Jails Woman for trying to Watch Men's Volleyball Match

Iran Jails Woman for trying to Watch Men’s Volleyball Match

Channel 4 News “A court in Iran has sentenced a British-Iranian woman to a year in prison because she tried to go to a men’s […]

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Barack Obama
How a Republican Congress could Entangle the US further in the Middle East

How a Republican Congress could Entangle the US further in the Middle East

By Juan Cole The midterm elections in a president’s second term have historically been a time when the president’s party lost seats in both houses […]

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Iraq
Video: ISIL Pedophiles discuss Buying Minor Sex Slaves

Video: ISIL Pedophiles discuss Buying Minor Sex Slaves

via BReaking News “IS fighters talk about which female slaves to buy and sell ‘A new video has emerged showing IS fighters negotiating prices for […]

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Republican Party
Shocking things a GOP Senate might do to Women's Economic Rights (Reich)

Shocking things a GOP Senate might do to Women’s Economic Rights (Reich)

Moveon.org: “Robert Reich explains how a Republican-controlled Senate would attack women’s rights in what adds up to an economic war on women — the third […]

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Human Rights
Iraq:  Lawless Islamic State Group In Mosul Targets Attorneys, Judges

Iraq: Lawless Islamic State Group In Mosul Targets Attorneys, Judges

Special Correspondent | Mosul | via Niqash When Sunni Muslim extremists took over Mosul in early June, they closed local courts and set up their […]

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Climate Change
Can Big Oil "win ugly" in its "Endless War" on Climate Activists?

Can Big Oil “win ugly” in its “Endless War” on Climate Activists?

by Stephen Leahy (IPS) Greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are higher than ever, and we’re seeing more and more extreme weather and climate events….We […]

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Egypt
Incredible Expanding Cairo (Video)

Incredible Expanding Cairo (Video)

NYU STERN URBANIZATION PROJECT “The expansion of built up urban land in Cairo, 1800 – 2000. Prepared for the NYU Stern Urbanization Project using data […]

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Bashar al-Assad
American Weapons, provided to Syrian rebels, fall into Hands of al-Qaeda

American Weapons, provided to Syrian rebels, fall into Hands of al-Qaeda

By Juan Cole The al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra (the Succor Front) not only took the territory of the moderate Muslim Syria Revolutionaries Front this weekend, […]

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